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- Chinese Wind Power Plant Coming to U.S. Soil
- John Lounsbury submits: Two days ago it was solar power panels. On Wednesday, A-Power Energy Generation Systems APWR, a Chinese wind turbine maker, announced see New York Times article by Kate Galbraith here plans to start construction of a wind turbine production plant somewhere in the U.S. next year....
- External links 2009-11-18
- Don't Worry About Deleveraging
- John Lounsbury submits: There is a counter argument to my previous article. Tracy Alloway has an article at ft.com this morning entitled the same as this post. Tracy quotes Goldman Sachs analysts who maintain that the following factors will offset the reduced consumer use of credit: by John Lounsbury
- External links 2009-09-11
- Five Questions About Government's Role in the Mortgage Business
- John Lounsbury submits: There is a good article in The Washington Post, by Zachary A. Goldfarb and Dina ElBoghdady. The article discusses the role of the federal government in the current mortgage market. The authors conclude that there would be no mortgage market today without the government, as...
- External links 2009-09-09
- The FPA Battles FINRA
- John Lounsbury submits: Okay, so you can't understand the alphabet soup title. That's where I'll start. FPA = Financial Planning Association, a professional orgaization for financial planners. by John Lounsbury
- External links 2009-09-04
- A Global Tax on Financial Transactions?
- John Lounsbury submits: George Parker at ft.com writes that Adair Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority UK, says drastic measures may be needed to cut the financial sector down to size. Adair says that London's financial sector has become a destabilising factor in the British economy. ...
- External links 2009-08-28
- Comparing Today's Bank Crisis to the Past
- John Lounsbury submits: Even when adjusted for inflation and population growth, the 2008-09 banking crisis far exceeds previous banking crises, including even the Great Depression. There were 10,000 bank failures in the Great Depression, but few of them had branches. Today, a medium sized bank usually has hundreds of branches...
- External links 2009-08-25
- How Is China's Export Driven Economy Booming?
- John Lounsbury submits: How is it that China, which is supposed to be an export driven economy, has been booming? GDP growth is reported at 8% at a time when the rest of the world is still in the dumper or is just starting to climb out. As...
- External links 2009-08-21
- Court Bans Microsoft Word Sales: This Isn't Over
- John Lounsbury submits: Information Week reports here that a judge has imposed a ban on U.S. sales of Microsoft Word MSFT, effective in 60 days. The judge, Leonard Davis, of U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas, on August 11 ruled that Word violates U.S. patent 5,787,449, which describes...
- External links 2009-08-13
- Unemployment: Keeping It Honest
- John Lounsbury submits: In an Op Ed today on TheStreet.com I shared my concerns about the mixed messages in the latest monthly Employment Situations Report from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). The analysis reviewed was based on my methodology for basing unemployment on the hours worked, rather than...
- External links 2009-08-07
- What's the Worst Case Scenario for Real Estate?
- John Lounsbury submits: What is the worst case scenario for real estate? Over the long haul there has often been a debate about whether equities or real estate is a better investment. What about considering that the worst case scenario for real estate is no worse than the...
- External links 2009-09-18
- Seasonal Effects in Housing Cloud Market Status
- John Lounsbury submits: The latest NAR National Association of Realtors data show existing home sales declined in August, after four months of increases here. Just as the rise in home sales April to July could be partially attributed to seasonal effects, the decline in August, and continuing through the...
- External links 2009-09-25
- Goldman Tries to Combat Its Bad Image
- John Lounsbury submits: Goldman Sachs GS has apparently decided that it has a public relations disaster on its hands and is starting a campaign to turn that around. The firm has pledged $100 million a year for programs to help small businesses. The pledge will be fulfilled annually...
- External links 2009-11-18
- Employment Outlook Isn't as Bright as Slate's Daniel Gross Thinks
- John Lounsbury submits: Daniel Gross, writing in Slate here, said there was an outside chance that employment could show an increase by the end of the year, quoting Michael Darda, chief economist at MKM Partners. The reasons cited include: by John Lounsbury
- External links 2009-11-17
- PBGC Is Not Only Underwater, It's Drowning
- John Lounsbury submits: The PBGC Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, a GSE government sponsored enterprise, reported a total asset deficit of approximately $22 billion for fiscal 2009. This was almost exactly double the deficit for 2008. The official news release by the PBGC can be read here.In the annual...
- External links 2009-11-16
- Dodd Offers Regulation Bill
- John Lounsbury submits: Sen. Christopher Dodd (D, Connecticut), Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has offered legislation that would extensively revamp regulation of U.S. banks. Stacey Kapur, at American Banker, has a complete review of the proposal here. This is a subscription service and, if access is not...
- External links 2009-11-10
- Former Citi CEO John S. Reed: Mea Culpa
- John Lounsbury submits: John S. Reed, who was CEO of Citicorp for 14 years before the 1998 merger with Travelers TRV and then co-CEO of Citigroup C with Sandy Weill until Reed's retirement in 2000, says he was wrong. A Bloomberg here article by Bob Ivry quotes Reed. ...
- External links 2009-11-09
- When Is Insider Trading Legal? The Strange Case of Stephen Friedman
- John Lounsbury submits: There has been a lot of outrage about the the AIG bailout, but one particular aspect has been somewhat below the radar. Enter Matt Taibbi. Matt's latest expose at True/Slant here discusses the case of Stephen Friedman. The former chairman of the board of directors...
- External links 2009-10-30
- Why Is Citi Selling Phibro for Less Than One Year's Net Earnings?
- John Lounsbury submits: Well, Citigroup C just did. According to a report by Tracy Alloway at ft.com here, Citi is selling its profitable Phibro trading unit to Occidental Petroleum OXY for as little as $250 million. That is the amount specified in an OXY press release here. Phibro...
- External links 2009-10-13
- New Taibbi Feud With Goldman
- John Lounsbury submits: Matt Taibbi has a new article that will be out in a few days in Rolling Stone. The article reportedly will review the factors leading up to the failures of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. A lot of the article is apparently occupied by a...
- External links 2009-10-01
- The U.S. Consumer's Pain Will Continue Until 2010
- John Lounsbury submits: The following table in a press release this morning from the BEA paints a very discouraging picture of the condition of the American consumer. (The BEA is the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce.) by John Lounsbury
- External links 2009-08-04
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